NDLI: SMACK: Short message authentication check against battery exhaustion in the Internet of Things

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gehrmann, C. Tiloca, M. Hoglund, R.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Security Lab., SICS Swedish ICT AB, Lund, Sweden (Gehrmann, C.) \|\| Security Lab., SICS Swedish ICT AB, Kista, Sweden (Tiloca, M.; Hoglund, R.)
Abstract	Internet of Things (IoT) commonly identifies the upcoming network society where all connectable devices will be able to communicate with one another. In addition, IoT devices are supposed to be directly connected to the Internet, and many of them are likely to be battery powered. Hence, they are particularly vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks specifically aimed at quickly draining battery and severely reducing device lifetime. In this paper, we propose SMACK, a security service which efficiently identifies invalid messages early after their reception, by checking a short and lightweight Message Authentication Code (MAC). So doing, further useless processing on invalid messages can be avoided, thus reducing the impact of DoS attacks and preserving battery life. In particular, we provide an adaptation of SMACK for the standard Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). Finally, we experimentally evaluate SMACK performance through our prototype implementation for the resource constrained CC2538 platform. Our results show that SMACK is efficient and affordable in terms of memory requirements, computing time, and energy consumption.
Starting Page	274
Ending Page	282
File Size	355936
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781467373319
DOI	10.1109/SAHCN.2015.7338326
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-06-22
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Batteries Energy consumption Protocols Performance evaluation Message authentication
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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